Manual:Infantry Manual:Equipment:Weapons:Equipment:Weapons:Phasers

Phaser Weapons
All infantry phaser systems are recharged from sarium krellide power magazines or “clips as they are some-times called. The SFMC requires that all phaser magazines accepted from a contractor must be meet the “five and five” rule: that is, they are capable of being recharged in less than five standard minutes, and capa-ble of holding a full charge for five standard years in storage. They must also be immune to damage from all but the worst mishandling, and leach their energy out if damaged rather than explode.

Phaser Pistols / Hand Phasers
R549 Pistol

The R549 is the Marine Corps version of the venerable Type-1 Starfleet Phaser. In close combat and last ditch defense actions. The R549 is painted solid matte black and has anti-dampening feature.

R831 Phaser Pistol

The R831 verges on the upper limit of what any rightful soldier would consider a pistol. This weapon was an early attempt to give vehicle crews and other marines not directly involved in infantry combat roles a weapon for which to defend them-selves in emergencies.

R970Ξ Phaser Pistol

The R970 Phaser Pistol which was based on the Model 2287 Type-2 phaser even though its power levels and capabilities were obsolete. To keep foreign agents from using it; two safeties were built in. The R970 has been upgraded several times. The latest “Xi” model was comparable to the latest Type-2 phasers.

Phaser Rifles
R506 Phaser Rifle

After the overwhelming success of the R944 during the Dominion War, the SFMC chose to use it as the basis for replacing all of its squad level phaser weapons. The first variant to be produced was a carbine and desig-nated the R506. Since this version was only intended to be a compact version of the rifle, many of the internal components were to be identical, and what changes were made were out of consideration to its smaller size. The R506 eventually replaced the R910K as the standard issue phaser rifle of the SFMC.

R599Λ Phaser Rifle

In the 2330s the Ordnance Bureau was tasked with designing a new rifle to replace the R848 “Garand”, which had been in use since the mid-23rd century. Using the latest Federation phaser technology, the designers preserved the basic shape of the R848 but added a forward pistol grip. The outer case was enlarged and a large stock & butt plate to add ergonomics while firing but also to fit the large power cell. There is a bulge around the emitter assembly to fit the large emitter crystals & their oversized stabilization matrix.

R685 Phaser Rifle

The R685 started its life as a R944. SFMC Brass wanted a phaser rifle that could also be used as a sniper rifle in certain situations; thus the R685 was born. R685 is not a complete redesign but has some subtle changes. A small Inertial Dampening Field (IDF) generator is in the stock of the weapon to increase the ability of the weapon to remain stable while firing.

R757 Phaser Rifle

The R757 is a powerful phaser rifle designed to support infantry squad operations. It looks like a R944 Phaser Rifle with a bulkier body to accommodate sturdier components & larger energy modules. What sets it apart is that the rifle also contains a pulse phaser emitter that was first used in the 2370 Types 3 Phaser Rifle. It was given the designation Squad Compressed Rectification Automatic Phaser Rifle or SCRAPR for short. The rifle comes standard with a folding stock, a collapsible bi-pod, R966 standard optical sight/carry handle, and a forward hand grip for firing on the move. The mass of the weapon makes maneuvering it quickly a chal-lenge, but a marine that has become accustomed to it has no great loss in mobility.

R776 Heavy Phaser

The R776 was the first of a new generation of heavy phaser rifle that were portable enough to be integrated at the squad level. The design borrowed from the R944. This phaser is capable of projecting phaser bolts at high rate of fire, or a devastating phaser beam that can be used to punch a hole in vehicles, armor, or structures. To switch modes, the weapon will need 5 seconds to build a charge in its capacitors when going from pulse to beam, and about 3 seconds to cool the emitter assembly when changing back.

R805 Phaser Rifle

The R805 Phaser Shotgun is a short-range field of effect weapon. It fires a phaser pulse that extends 60 degrees from center. This field of effect extends to a range determined by the effect set for on the weapon’s control panel. The higher power required for the main effect, the less power available for the carrier signal, hence the shorter range. Stun effects have the longest range; up to 250m. Disintegrate effects have a range of 25-40m. The R805 uses the grip, frame, & receiver from the R944 with a modified collimator/emitter unit. The weapon has no shoulder stock. It does have a standard weapon sight used only in low light situations.

R816 Phaser Rifle

The R816 is technically classed as a phaser rifle, but because of its size and performance, it is somewhere between a hand phaser and a carbine. The reason for this compromise is because the R816 was designed for vehicle crewmen to use after they have been forced to exit their vehicle by means of a traumatic event perpetrated by hostile forces. Under these conditions high rates of fire is more important than range or stopping power.

R910K Phaser Rifle

When the Corps began development of a new phaser rifle in 2350, it tasked the designers to create both a carbine and an assault rifle version utilizing as many of the same components as possible. This program would produce the R910.

To save mass the R910 would have lower efficiency components & therefore lower power outputs To compensate for the lower power, the carbine would have a larger selection of power settings & its emitter would have the precise tooling needed to modify the beam on the fly.

R944 Phaser Rifle

The R944 became the standard shoulder weapon for the SFMC immediately before the Dominion War. After the extensive planetary engagements of the Cardassian Wars, the SFMC decided that the single Marine needed more firepower than a semiautomatic rifle could provide. The R944 would be modeled after the up-graded Type 3 fleet phase rifle, but the marine version would have a rapid fire capability.

R969 Phaser Rifle

The R969 one of the oldest designs used by the SFMC. It entered service as a directed energy weapon used in the machine gun role. The bulky design is man portable – barely. It has found a few useful roles. It has been used as a long-range standoff weapon capable of engaging any target short of armored combat vehi-cles. It has also been used as a counter sniper role, it can hit targets who would otherwise be protected from counter fire. However, its most interesting use is by scout/sniper teams that needed weapon that was still man portable but could engage motorized & aerial targets with stealth & precision.

R979 Phaser Rifle

In designing the R979, the SFMC wanted a man portable phaser rifle that could engage in Anti-Armor opera-tions. This rifle pushes the limits of that classification. While the weapon is man portable, the R979 it lacks mobility and endurance. When used at maximum range and output the magazine will be drained after a single shot. The only solution was to make the R979 cable of also accepting a large portable battery pack. To keep it considered man-portable instead of crew-served, the battery is carried by a second marine. This battery pack, while increasing the weapons rate of fire, is ungainly in most situations, and often completely impractical in mobile operations.

R985 Phaser Rifle

The R985 is classified as a Light Machine Gun, but since it uses beam phaser technology the term heavy phaser rifle is a more accurate. It borrows from the R599 to maintain commonality of parts & reduce invento-ry of needed spares by SFMC Armorers. It was intended to serve as a fire support weapon for infantry squads, engaging the enemy with sweeping fire instead of with large volumes of rapid fire. The gunner would direct a continuous 2-3 second beam over an area to either graze enemy troops or to force them to seek cover. When engaging a point target, like an armored vehicle, the beam would be focused on a single point in an attempt to piece the armor.

R989 Phaser Rifle

The R989 is designed as a long-range energy weapon for use against enemy personnel while keeping its user safe from counter-sniper fire. To accomplish this last function the phaser beam is emitted on a carrier signal measured in picometers rather than nanometers, meaning that the beam produces no visible light like other types of energy weapons. Due to this unusual carrier signal its power cell can only produce 25 shots before needing to be changed, even though it can store slightly more power than a standard R944 power cell. However, each pulse will produce a 20-millimeter hole out to a range of 3 kilometers.

Crew-Served Heavy Phasers
R540 Heavy Phaser

The R540 is a crew served support weapon that first came into service at the beginning of the Cardassian Wars. The R540 is a fully automatic compression phaser that uses large volumes of fire to engage infantry formations and lightly armored vehicles. The R540 breakdown into three pieces: the weapon, the tripod & the sarium kellide power cell.

R814 Heavy Phaser

R814 was designed to be a crew-served heavy phaser but was rarely used in this role as other weapons of similar design also existed. It would find another use as a vehicle mounted weapon. Light armored vehicles such as jeeps & hummers needed a weapon in the automatic assault gun class, but most vehicles that size could not mount heavier weapons and lacked the ammo storage for projectile weapons. The R814 would fill this role nicely as it was the right size for these smaller vehicles and it the vehicle was damage and the phas-er was still functional, the weapon could be dismounted and used as a crew-served weapon provided the ma-rines brought the folding tripod with them.

R977 Heavy Phaser

The R977 serves as an anti-vehicular weapon system, capable of punching through the armored protection of all but the heaviest combat vehicles. While its rate of fire is slow, its ability to eliminate a threat with a single round more than counterbalances that deficit.

Recoilless Energy Weapons
R949 Light Isomagnetic Disintegrator (LID)

The R949 is a shoulder-fired, man-portable support weapon derived from the R973 Isomagnetic Disintegrator. The LID is made lighter and more maneuverable by removing the control unit and accelerator tube and focus-ing on the individual power cells used with the weapon. This weapon is capable of taking out armored vehicles with more than one shot.

R973 Isomagnetic Disintegrator

The Isomagnetic Disintegrator uses a high energy plasma bolt to inflict considerable damage to the molecular integrity of its target. The R973 is designed with removable power cells since the highest discharge setting of the weapon is capable of completely draining the cell with a single shot. The appearance of the R973 is there-fore remarkably like the R143 Recoilless Rifle, with a control unit/emitter that accepts the power cell in the rear of the assembly. This weapon can be used to take out an armored vehicle.